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State of digital development and trends in the Arab States region: Challenges and opportunities
Geneva: ITU (2025), iv, 53 pp.
"This report offers a comprehensive snapshot of the region’s digital landscape, highlighting both remarkable progress and persisting challenges. Ninety-five per cent of the population in this region is covered by mobile broadband networks, and more than half of the countries have already achieved
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State of digital development and trends in Asia and the Pacific: Challenges and opportunities
Geneva: ITU (2025), iv, 53 pp.
"[...] While mobile broadband covers over 95 per cent of the population, disparities persist. High-income economies lead in 5G deployment and innovation, while lower-income countries face infrastructure, affordability, and digital literacy gaps. The urban-rural divide remains, and women and marginal
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State of digital development and trends in the Americas region: Challenges and opportunities
Geneva: ITU (2025), v, 51 pp.
"This publication provides an in-depth look at digital development across the region, revealing both substantial progress and areas where challenges persist. Internet use is widespread, with nearly nine in ten people online. In a milestone achievement, the Americas is the only region to have fully b
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State of digital development and trends in the Africa region: Challenges and opportunities
Geneva: ITU (2025), iv, 49 pp.
"This publication reveals that the gap between ambition and reality remains wide. Mobile broadband coverage has expanded rapidly, offering most of the population the possibility of going online. And yet, only 38 per cent of the population currently uses the Internet—the lowest rate among all ITU r
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State of digital development and trends in the CIS region: Challenges and opportunities
Geneva: ITU (2025), iv, 47 pp.
"This publication offers a comprehensive overview of digital development in the CIS region. The data reveal a region where nine in ten people are online—well above the global average—and where mobile broadband networks now cover virtually the entire population. These are important milestones. At
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Measuring the Emissions & Energy Footprint of the ICT Sector: Implications for Climate Action
Washington, DC; Geneva: World Bank;ITU (2024), vi, 45 pp.
"The objective of this report is two-fold. First, the report breaks down the energy and emissions profile of the sector and assesses the 30 highest emitting countries for telecommunications while providing global estimates for other ICT sector segments. The report uses a key framework for categorizi
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Digital transformation and early warning systems for saving lives: Background paper
Geneva: ITU (2023), iv, 36 pp.
"The objective of this paper is to highlight the importance of early warning dissemination and communication, one of the four pillars of multi-hazard early warning systems (MHEWS), which ITU is leading with the newly defined executive action plan for the Early Warnings for All initiative. The key ob
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Digital trends in the Commonwealth of Independent States region 2021: Information and communication technology trends and developments in the CIS region, 2017-2020
Geneva: ITU (2021), vi, 47 pp.
"This report provides an overview of trends and developments in information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure, access and use in the CIS region, which includes 9 Member States and is home to a population of 240 million people. The report highlights changes in ICT adoption since the l
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Digital trends in the Americas region 2021: Information and communication technology trends and developments in the Americas region, 2017-2020
Geneva: ITU (2021), vi, 58 pp.
"This report provides an overview of trends and developments in ICT infrastructure, access and use in the Americas region, which includes 35 Member States and is home to a population of 1 billion people. The report highlights changes in ICT adoption since the last World Telecommunication Development
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Digital trends in Asia and the Pacific 2021: Information and communication technology trends and developments in the Asia-Pacific region, 2017-2020
Geneva: ITU (2021), vi, 58 pp.
"This report provides an overview of trends and developments in ICT infrastructure, access and use in Asia and the Pacific, which includes 38 Member States and is home to a population of 4.2 billion people. It highlights changes in information communication technology (ICT) adoption since the last W
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Digital trends in the Arab States region 2021: Information and communication technology trends and developments in the Arab States region, 2017-2020
Geneva: ITU (2021), vi, 52 pp.
"This report provides an overview of trends and developments in information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure, access and use in the ITU Arab States region, which includes 21 Member States plus the State of Palestine under Resolution 99 (Rev. Dubai, 2018), and is home to a population
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Making ICT Policy in Africa: An Introductory Handbook
Key Guidance
Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2021), 71 pp.
"This introductory handbook to the development of ICT policy in Africa aims to assist law makers, government officials, lawyers, civil society organisations (CSOs), academics and members of the public engaged in the development and implementation of ICT policy. Its primary purpose is to provide an i
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Secuencia e hitos de la polémica ley de las TIC en Colombia
Bogotá: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2020), 9 pp.
"La ley TIC (tecnologías de la información y las comunicaciones) 1978, aprobada en julio de 2019 por el Congreso de la República de Colombia, es fruto de numerosas polémicas que desencadenaron movilizaciones, debates ciudadanos y cuestionamientos públicos. ¿Cuáles fueron sus ejes de discusió
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World Development Report 2016: Digital Dividends
Washington, DC: World Bank (2016), xxiii, 330 pp.
"Digital technologies have spread rapidly in much of the world. Digital dividends—the broader development benefits from using these technologies—have lagged behind. In many instances digital technologies have boosted growth, expanded opportunities, and improved service delivery. Yet their aggreg
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Die Macht der Informationsintermediäre: Erscheinungsformen, Strukturen und Regulierungsoptionen
Bonn: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2016), 96 pp.
"Zunehmend ist es nämlich nicht mehr die Frage „Was wird verbreitet?“, sondern die Frage „Was wird gefunden und kann verarbeitet werden?“, die über die Vielfalt der von uns wahrgenommenen Inhalte entscheidet. Vordergründig ist die Zahl der zur Verfügung stehenden Informationen ins Unerme
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OECD Digital Economy Outlook 2015
Paris: OECD (2015), 284 pp.
"This report assesses how countries can maximise the potential of the digital economy as a driver for innovation and inclusive growth, and discusses the evolutions in the digital economy that policy makers need to consider as well as the emerging challenges they need to address as a part of national
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Mapping Digital Media: Indonesia
London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2014), 92 pp.
"The emergence of digital media in Indonesia coincided with the country’s transition to democracy beginning in 1998. In some ways, digitization has catalyzed the development of diverse and independent media. Market reforms in favor of liberalization have gone hand in hand with convergence and prol
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Mapping Digital Media: Global Findings. Digital Journalism: Making News, Breaking News
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London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Program on Independent Journalism (2014), 360 pp.
"The Mapping Digital Media research confirms that digital television and the internet have had a radical impact on media businesses, journalists, and citizens at large. As might be expected, platforms distributing journalism have proliferated, media companies are revamping their operations, and citi
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Mapping Digital Media: Kazakhstan
London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2013), 114 pp.
"The story of Kazakhstani media is of two contrasting dynamics: the increasingly controlled and innovation-shy offline space, and the vibrant, less-restricted digital environment. The rise of digital media has yielded benefits for citizens and democracy, albeit these are limited by the dominance of
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Mapping Digital Media: Malaysia
London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2013), 120 pp.
"Two out of three Malaysians regularly use the internet (even though large areas of the East Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak, where nearly a fifth of the population lives, pose logistical challenges regarding infrastructure) and a third of the population have a 3G mobile subscription. Broadban
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